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Martin Center column highlights impact of no lab, facility access
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about one key problem linked to online-only college education. Though online teaching has dominated the college semester, not all teachers are equally skilled…
Liberty
European lawmaker adds to Trump’s Nobel nominations
Adam Shaw writes at FoxNews.com about an interesting Nobel Peace Prize development. President Trump has picked up another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, after a Finnish member of the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
San Francisco feels real impact of bad policies
Brittany De Lea writes for FoxNews.com about bad news for San Francisco. San Francisco experienced a 43% year-over-year decline in sales tax revenues during the pandemic, which has been credited…
Law & Public Safety
Barrett has protected Americans’ rights
Hans von Spakovsky explains for the Daily Signal how Judge Amy Coney Barrett has issued opinions favoring Americans’ civil rights. In her rulings on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals,…
Education
Most young Americans don’t want to silence debate
Samuel Abrams writes at Real Clear Education about relatively good news for the future of free speech. Though colleges and universities have been open for only a few weeks, reports…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump convert explains his stance
David Sound uses a Federalist column to explain why he’s come to around to supporting the incumbent president. Even though I had voted for every Republican presidential candidate since 1980,…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal Online about races for seats on the N.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights the role ticket-splitting continues to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Tax revenue still on pace with last year
Tax collections for the six months from April through September continue to track closely with the same period a year ago ($13.145 billion in 2020 vs $13.225 billion in 2019,…
Health Care
Medicaid Expansion and Rural Hospitals
With the election less than 30 days away, political candidates from all across the spectrum are digging in on their political stances, trying to persuade voters to vote for their…
Education
Martin Center probes problem of ‘linguistic justice’
Matthew Stewart writes for the Martin Center about an academic fad that will hurt minority students. On August 3, the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: How many cases aren’t even cases?
How many of North Carolina's "positive" cases would have been negative if the state's cycle threshold was more in line with research consensus, the CDC's recommendation, or the best advice…
Health Care
COVID-19 response plagued by ‘precautionary paradox’
James Meigs writes in Commentary magazine about one factor that has hurt experts’ response to COVID-19. We know now that the coronavirus travels through the air, just as some researchers…